. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1616 
20 June 2007  
 (07-2616) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UNITED STATES  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Honey, honeycomb, cotton, egg, goat,  poultry, sheep, hops, milk, hog, cattle 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
US trade partners  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  PROPOSED RULE. 
Amitraz, Atrazine, Ethephon, Ferbam, Linda ne, Propachlor, and Simazine; Proposed 
Tolerance Actions (available in English, 13 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this rule and on the basis of available data, the 
Agency proposes the following ch anges to existing federal regulations for the pesticide 
amitraz: 
All registered uses of amitraz in beehives ha ve been cancelled and therefore, the Agency 
determined that the tolerances on honey and honeycomb are no longer needed and should 
be revoked. Consequently, EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances for residues of 
amitraz and its metabolites in or on "honey'' and "honeycomb". 
There have been no active US registrations fo r use of amitraz on cotton since 3 May 2006. 
However, the Agency received  a request that the tolerance for cotton, undelinted seed be 
retained for import purposes. Also, EPA is proposing to revoke the commodity tolerances 
for residues of amitraz and its metabolites in or on "egg", "goat, fat", "goat, meat 
byproducts", "goat, meat", "poultry fat/meat ", "poultry, meat byproducts", "sheep, fat", 
"sheep, meat byproducts" and "sheep, meat". 
EPA is proposing to revoke the import tolera nce in or on hop, dried cones because it does 
not meet requirements of relevant federal law. 
EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerances fo r "cattle, meat byproducts" from 0.3 to 0.2 
ppm; "cattle, meat" from 0.05 to 0.02 ppm; "hog, kidney" from 0.2 to 0.1 ppm; "hog, liver" 
from 0.2 to 0.1 ppm; and "milk, fat" from 0.3 to 0.2 ppm. G/SPS/N/USA/1616 
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  7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest  or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [ ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the 
appropriate reference and briefly identify deviations:     
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 13 
June 2007 (Volume 72, Number 113) Proposed Rules Page 32570-32582; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/June/Day-13/p11324.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  13 August 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 13 August 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0187. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 6 90-0677;  E-mail: fstsd@fas.usda.gov